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US 2008/0156687 A1Published application
Adhesive bandage envelope
OwnerRaymond N. Augerinventor
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The present invention incorporates ways to rapidly open an envelope in which an adhesive bandage is packaged in a sterile manner. Such bandages are commonly described as Band Aids™. The method consists of a modification of the tabs currently used on one end of nearly all such envelopes. The modification consists of the enlargement of the tabs and the use of an additional fold to make the tabs easily gripped because they project out from the envelope. An additional embodiment of the invention causes all the envelopes in a box to be anchored in the box by tabs which are extensions of one half of each envelope, so that by pulling on the tab of the other half of the envelope, the bandage is both pulled from the box and extended from the envelope. An additional enhancement of the invention has one of the release strips protecting the adhesive portions of the bandage to adhere to the envelope, making the bandage ready for application without the need to remove that release strip through a separate action. A variety of bandage sizes may be included in one box, each size being available by a separate opening.
A package of a plurality of bandages confined in associated envelopes wherein each envelope comprises two confronting sheet-like halves having an adhesive on confronting faces of said halves, said halves having opposite ends and wherein one end of at least one of said halves in each envelope is folded along a fold line so as to define a tab forming an angle with the remainder of the half, wherein each envelope is releasably attached to an adjacent envelope, and each bandage is confined between the confronting faces of an associated envelope.
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